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Title reads: "Down to the sea".

Shipbuilding yard, Sunderland.

M/S of Princess Elizabeth giving speech from launching platform and smashing bottle of champagne against hull of new ship, British Princess. Various shots of ship sliding down slipway. Various L/Ss of ship onto River Wear. Princess Elizabeth watches from platform with dignitaries.

John Brown's shipbuilding yard, Clydebank, Scotland.

Various shots of newly fitted out battleship HMS Vanguard being guided down River Clyde by tug boats.